So the Elan race is a created race right? So you then were what ever you were before being turned to one. Doesn't that make a Elan technically a racial template? So do you retain all you original racial traits when you are transformed to an Elan. Also if you had classes locked with your previous race do they follow through when you get turned into an Elan?
1) This isn't really the appropriate section because this is not a Paizo rules question, as Elan are a race from Dreamscarred Press' Psionics Unleashed. I believe that 3rd party producer's have their own section on the board to answer questions like this.
2) That being said however. No. Not even a little bit. The race has it's own racial trait, I can't imagine they intended for you to double dip and it is not a template. Also, they are made "with but wisps and fragments of memories of their previous lives." So no, they don't retain anything of their previous existence.
Yeah, Elan are a complete race, not template. The only way for them to retain traits from their former race is as alternate race traits (which Ultimate Psionics has), though it's limited.
Although the terms aren't necessarily what I'd prefer to use... this is the best way I can explain it:
Don't let the fluff confuse the crunch.
They're a race - if they were a template, it would say it was a template. Templates are formatted drastically differently than races.
And if it was just a template, all elans wouldn't look human ;) The body is rebuilt, the mind is rebuilt, and the new being infused with psionic power.
I see no problems with letting an elan look like his previous race, though; that's pure fluff, and as such, not binding. Heck, I'd let someone tack a small size onto that if they were formerly a halfling or gnome or something.